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Rh ever occurring holiday to the educated, cultured and progressive minds of honest truth-seekers, from the first number to the last; it is safe to say that at no time and among no nation there ever was published a paper that breathed a like independent, bold and humane spirit. Heinzen was among the first intrepid champions of the emancipation of woman, incessantly vindicating the rights of the fair sex to liberate the better half of mankind from the despotism of the "lord and master," and the drudgery of a degrading thraldom.

Regarding his controversy with Arnold Ruge, the renowned German philosopher, who lived at that time in exile at Brighton, England, about the emancipation and rights of women, which appeared also in "Der Pionier" in the year 1855, it may be necessary to explain that the same was carried on by him under the nom de plume of Luise Meyen. It created not a small sensation in the German literary world; the wonderful logic, boldness and poetical beauty that characterize the. utterances of the intrepid Luise were without comparison, and considering the fact that they were uttered by a woman on a subject at that time yet so foreign even to the advanced mind, the readers were puzzled as to the genuineness of the authoress' name. A large